Australia: Senate Motion for Dr Mic

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Subject: Australia: Senate Motion for Dr Michael Aris

Free Burma Coalition, Australia  

The Australian Senate
Condolence Motion
Senator Bourne
Death of Dr Michael Aris: Academic and humanitarian activist


I give notice that on the next day of sitting (30th March 1999) I shall
move that the Senate
notes that:

1.	the tragic passing away of Doctor Michael Aris, the British Tibetan
studies expert, humanitarian campaigner, and husband of Burmese Nobel Peace
Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who died of cancer early on Saturday
evening, 27 March 1999. 

2.	the refusal of the Burmese military junta, the State Peace and
Development Council to allow  Daw Suu to unconditionally travel to Oxford to
visit her dying husband  

3.	this refusal amounts to a callous and cruel disregard for even the
most basic humanitarian principles as is the refusal of the SPDC to grant
visiting visas to Suu Kyi's two sons

4.	the apparent change in the SPDC's policy in relation to Suu Kyi's
attendance at her husband's funeral is conditional on her giving up her
people's struggle for democracy and human rights 

5.	the SPDC have reneged on earlier undertakings in relation to Suu
Kyi's freedom of movement, but more particularly, their refusal to allow the
National League for Democracy to form government after democratic elections
means they cannot be trusted to abide by their undertaking that Suu Kyi will
be allowed back into Burma and retain leadership of the NLD. 

And 

6.	calls on the SPDC to unconditionally allow Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to
attend her husband's funeral in Oxford on Friday, and return without fear of
retribution or 'special' treatment.